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True Story 54: I was heavily pregnant and living in a one bedroom flat with my husband. Once I had delivered the baby and was washing the clothes one day, I noticed my baby was out of the cot and sitting on the corner of the setae. He was laughing, playing and kept on pointing towards the ceiling.

This happened for a week before I confronted my husband. I then believed him that the flat was haunted. We stayed there for another couple of months and sold the flat and moved a couple streets away. I mean there are ghosts out there - some are good and some are bad, just like people.


True Story 53: One time when I lived in my old house, I woke up and it was nearly morning. I looked up from my bunk bed and saw this figure there smiling at me and then it slowly disappeared!


True Story 52: It all happened in my friend's rental home (she was building a house that wasn't finished yet) the house was huge! So we were sleeping in her living room, on a pallet with her pets sleeping on us. Then I wake up because Mimi (one of here cats) meowed. I look into the kitchen and see a man. He was wearing a black hat and black clothes. I blinked and he was gone. This was 2 o'clock in the morning, so I didn't want to wake my friend up.

I couldn't sleep so I went in her room and slept in there for the rest of the night. Then at 7 o'clock I went back in there to make sure I wouldn't worry her and I told her, then she said oh... you know this and my old house was haunted. ~Caroline~


True Story 51: Ok, I was laying in bed one night with the TV on and I was trying to watch it because my fav show was on, but then I fell asleep. I was awakened by the sound of footsteps coming toward me. I thought it was my sister, but when I looked over I saw something. A black shadow that was kinda small, but then I rubbed my eyes, and I figured out the thing was getting big! I tried going back to sleep but couldn't cause I was so scared.

I woke up cause I heard my sister getting a drink in the kitchen. Then I saw the thing again. I got up and ran into the living room and started crying so loud! My mom came into the room and told me it was my imagination, and I told her I saw it with my own 2 eyes, but she still didn’t believe me. Since then, I never slept in my room for 2 months. Abby- age 11


True Story 50: For one, I believe in good spirits, not the way you think I might but know ghosts, oh gosh, no ghosts! A few months ago my Aunt Denese died of cancer. I miss her so much. My mom - when she came back from the U.S. for my aunt's funeral… I live in the U.A.E.- told me a story about when she was in the U.S.

She said that she was talking to her brothers and a few members of our family at night and our religion believes that the persons body may leave but their spirits are always with us. So, they were talking about that when all of a sudden, a perfectly still crayon rolled off the counter. It was like my aunt was there saying that she was still there.

It was funny because at my friends house (they are twins) yesterday, we were talking about that experience that happened to my mom when suddenly the lamp next to us popped and turned off. Kalei had accidentally made the lamp tip over an hour before but it was a HUGE coincidence that that had happened when we were talking about my aunt's death and the crayon story.

All of us, me, Carly, and Kalei jumped on the couch and were talking really loud and were huddled together with a blanket over our head! We sat there for a while... wondering.. who knows....they are always with us... -Annie


True Story 49: Well It all started with my neighbors wanting someone to baby-sit for their 5 year old son. My parents made me because I wasn't doing anything that day. It was around 7 when I put the little kid to sleep. I put in a scary movie and started to relax. But then I heard a loud noise in the kitchen. I went to go check it out and saw milk and cookies half eaten. I knew i remember putting everything away. I went upstairs to check if it was the little kid. But he was fast asleep. I came downstairs. I went back to the living room and guess what I saw. the movie I was watching was paused on a scary looking guy. Then I heard laughing. I got freaked and called my best friend. She came over and I told her all about it. She gets really scared and told me she wanted to leave. But when she tried to open the door it wouldn't budge and we heard the loud laughing again. That's when my neighbor's opened the door and came in. They saw our scared faces and asked what had happen. I told them nothing and left without taking the money.


True Story 48: Me and my family moved to a house in the middle of nowhere. It was cool at first, but we started to hear voices in the corridor mostly at night. When my dad noticed this, we moved out of the house.


True Story 47: One night in Sieara la Veren, I was having a sleepover with my friend Grace, when looked in the mirror and turned on the sink and flushed the toilet and the bath on and tuned off the light and said Bloody Mary 3 times and spun around and the ghost tried to kill us!


True Story 46: When I was a baby, I lived in the mountains in Carlsbad and there was a ghost in my house. It looked like my Aunt Edith that died in 2001. She’d always pinch my checks and one day she put a teddy bear in my crib, but then she went into the forest and never came back


True Story 45: Well, sometimes I hear people at my school say that one day while in construction a man died! SO SOMETIMES I HEAR STUFF and when I am on the computer it goes completely crazy like just then my caps lock went crazy!


True Story 44: I was looking at out the door (it has a window) and I saw some guy walking down the street with a knife. That night I had dream there was house with 2 rooms, a kitchen with a door and a bedroom and there were 2 kids in the kitchen and 1 in the bedroom and suddenly a guy started breaking in with a knife. True story.


True Story 43: One day I was fixing my bed cause it was mess. I finally got it the way I wanted, so I got in the bed. I heard someone call my name. My parents were asleep and the voice didn’t sound like theirs. I rolled over and saw a little girl, she said, "Help me, my parents left me,“ then she turned backwards and said "it burns."


True Story 42: When I was about 3 or 4 years old, me, my mom and Grammy went out. While coming back home I argued with my mother to let me sleep at Grammy's and she said ok. We passed a Chinese temple and I think that has to do with what happened later.…When I was at Grammy's, I didn't sleep all night because I asked my Grammy to tell me ghost stories. Then suddenly I said, 'Ghost' and went all white and my lips turned blue, and I fainted. I didn’t talk for hours after that out of shock, but finally, I asked my mother, who had been summoned for by Grammy, for some water. Some kids never speak after a shock like that. I guess I was lucky!! - Farhana


True Story 41: Ok, so when I went to my freinds house, we saw a figure walking down the hall and the man was wearing an army uniform. My freinds house was used in World War II and he had a bullet in his chest.


True Story 40: One day I and my best friend both could see a ghost. One night I went to bed and saw a ghost.


True Story 39: Ouija board... some people say the Ouija board is fake… some people say its real. Well, its real! One night I was with my brother and a friend. We asked what the ghosts name was and she said, “Amilia.” We asked how old she was etc. then we asked what she wanted. She said, “You!”

We asked who, then she put Sabrina (friend). So she got scared and went away. Me and my brother said if she was joking and she said, "Yes." We told her that she was kidding, So we asked her the same question. She said me, so we just stopped.

You know how when you get scared, you start to cry? Well, I did that!!! That night I was in my room looking in my mirror and my brother walked in with a weird face and asked what the hell he was doing, but he didn’t answer. I shook him and then he punched me in the face. I ran downstairs to tell my parents and they yelled at him, but he was downstairs so we never knew who or what it was. But all I know is I’m never doing the Ouija board again.


True Story 38: One night I was getting a drink. I took it to my room. It was about 3:30 and I had my lamp on and all the sudden it started to flicker. I didn't really think much about it, until it went off for about a minute and went back on. Then I saw this strange figure at my front door ( I have a view of my front door in my bedroom). Then all the sudden I heard a high pitch squeak from my door! I just went under my covers and I heard this heavy breathing, then I was touched! Then it felt like a sudden blizzard had happened all around me. I peeked over the covers and nothing was there!!! I haven't sleep in my room ever since!


True Story 37: I realize this wasn't the most terrifying true ghost story ever, but it sure did scare the * out of me! I live upstairs, next to the bathroom. Next to the bathroom is a movie case. I was bored and couldn't sleep, but I looked at the bathroom. Something was at the movie case. It was white. Not like in a cartoon with a white sheet that goes, "BOOOO!" It was like a man, dressed in a white shirt, white coat, white pants, white hat, white shoes, white tie, white socks and white belt. I thought my eyes were playing tricks on me, but whatever it was, it went into the bathroom. Then it ran out extremely fast, like a blur. It was weird. I didn't hear footsteps or anything, but it just ran away like a blur. I got freaked out and started panting. I hid under the covers the whole night and didn't dare peek out. You couldn't blame me, though. I was nine.


True Story 36: I'm ten. You know how they say young people can see supernatural stuff. Bull if you ask me. Anyway, I was trying to sleep, but I had to use the bathroom. I got up and walked over to the bathroom. My eyes got accustomed to the dark. I thought I heard footsteps. I looked over to our computer and I saw a figure or something. It had these faintly yellow eyes and it was staring at me. I used the bathroom and jumped into bed. I was real freaked out.


True Story 35: I was on the computer checking out these online scary stories called, "Embellished memories.” I felt like I was being watched. I didn't want to alert it so I peeked over to the left. I thought I saw this shape. I kept looking at Embellished memories. Then I got real cold on the back of my neck. I turned my head real quick to see if it was my bro. Nope, nothing there.


True Story 34: Okay, on a bright sunny day my friend was going to have her party at Fort Gary Hotel. But we were all too scared to go, so we sat and told scary stories. Then when it was time for bed, all of us started hearing voices and felt a hand on are backs. My lesson is to don’t even think about Fort Gary Hotel… EVER!


True Story 33: It was Sunday the 10th of May when me and my friend Megan were playing on her trampoline. It got quiet dark and Megan’s mum called her in for her dinner. I stayed outside because everyone in her house was having dinner. I didn’t want to be rude coming in.

So, as I was playing on the trampoline, I looked over at the house at Megan and we laughed like we always do and then as I looked over her fence, I saw something move in the distance. I didn’t think anything of it. Megan finished her dinner and I told her what I saw. We both laughed. The next day we went into her garden. It was about 10. Megan went to feed her rabbit and I glanced over her garden fence and I saw the same thing as I did the day before, but it stayed there. I got quite scared. It was like this figure was looking at me. Now Megan is really scared and doesn’t want to go in her garden anymore! - Leah and Megan


True Story 32: I was larking out with my friend Bradley and my cousin Georgia, when Georgia said lets go to my house and go on my laptop. So I said to do what she said to watch scary stuff. So, that’s what we did. Then Bradley said, “Do you know what the grudge is?” I said no. So me and Georgia watched it and Bradley started to stare at us. When he went, “Raaahhh,” we screamed, then we laughed. Then, when I had to go home, I heard bleeping noises in Georgia’s room. We screamed and ran. - Abigail, 9 years old


True Story 31: This happened to one of my Mum's Friend, Amelia.

She had brought a simple house just out of town, in a really huge village. Asmera, Amelia's daughter, told me that the house was beautiful. In Amelia's room there was a picture of a man. Asmera told me it changed expression and the picture sometimes had his wife[?] and children[?].

When I saw it, the picture I think spoke to me like, "Eyes like mine, soul like hers, bloods the evi.l" I didn't know what that meant. Amelia saw that picture and came out shocked. She refused to talk to anyone, anyone except me. When she was in the hospital she held my hand and the man in the picture appeared beside her. "Daughter, Husband, Mother forever, leave this land and forever breather!" and then the man vanished and the heart monitor beeped, she died. But she was still clutching my hand and she gave me a message, "Asmerelda Fortwena Esmianolya Annie [my name]" and then she opened her eyes and then closed her eyes.

I kept seeing ghosts, spirits, weird messages and stuff. I could see glimpses of the future and read the memories of dead people. Asmera told me that her mum said "Keep the picture of the Man". Surprisingly, the picture was destroyed in a fire in my house and then I was normal again. - Kelly

True Story 20: One day I had a sleepover with my friends . When we wear playing we heard a sound in the livingroom . something scrached my friend! Then we heard a boy dying. The boy said ghost! It was a murder by a ghost!

True Story 19: I'm the youngest (14) and I have 2 older brothers, Reid (15) & Brad (17) who told me this.

Brad & Reid are real close, so we decided to have scary movie night. This is the story: Brad & Reid had JUST left the house to go rent some movies. Now of course we all had curfew, but theirs was later, so I couldn't go with. Anyway, they left to go rent the 'Grudge 2' and 'The messengers.' Well, when they got to the video store, it was of course open, but nobody seemed to be in there. Well, if you knew my brothers the way I do, you'd know they go ANYWHERE no matter WHO'S there or not.

ANYHOW, they went inside, and began looking around. They said when they found the two movies, they headed up to the front desk to pay for the movies. Only NO ONE was there. So there was this bell there that said " Ring for service," so Brad rang the bell.

The lights started to flicker and it began to get cold. Then out of no where, came a worker with his head down. HE came up to the desk. "Hey, uh, we would like to rent these two movies just for tonight," Reid said. And when the guy looked up his face looked like it was half eaten off. Both my brothers said that they froze for a complete second. "Leave this place or forever cry, leave this place or - " But they both knew what he was gonna say, so they said they bolted.

At first when they told me I thought they were lying, but I could tell by the look on their faces. The only good thing that came out of that were we got 2 free movies!

True Story 18: My story starts the very first night I moved into my new house, while I was in the middle of my dreams I was having that night. It all started when I was dreaming about my little old neighbor who had died. She was sitting on my bed holding my hand, telling me she was fine.

I suddenly awoke to my little old neighbor sitting on my bed holding my hand telling me everything was fine.

True Story 17: When I was 5 years old, my family lived in a Victorian house and I usually kept my TV on Scooby Doo. Well, one night my mom turned my TV on and told me to go to sleep. I said goodnight and she said she loved me too.

Well, right when she left my TV turned to a news station that did not look like a modern day news cast to me, but I watched it without compliant. It was about a fire that happened to a house that looked just like mine! A little girl died in this exact bedroom! So, I got scared and fell asleep with my TV on.

Well, I woke up around 12:00 and our smoke alarm was going off! So, I did what I only thought to do. I ran! When I got outside, I was scared and saw fire fighters and a family that was not mine saying, "Save our baby!" I was terrified. I told them to save my family! No one heard me! It was like I was a ghost!

Well, I woke up a hour later and my TV was on Scooby Doo as if nothing had happened, then I heard a little girl say, "I like Scooby Doo!" I looked and sitting right next to me was a little girl about my age smiling at me.

True Story 16: A long time ago there was this church called Burnt Church. The teacher taught the children witch craft. As soon as the people found out, they burnt the church with the people in it. Now to this day I live close to it. People say the graves that are kinda black are the Teacher and the Children's.

True Story 15: Ok. I was in my sister's room and I heard a noise that was like some one was leanin' against the bed room door, then I saw a figure real quick... My old friend came out of her bathroom (she has an old house) and she saw a ghost lady from the 1700's or 1800's... - may that lady rest in peace-

True Story 14: On a cold Halloween night, Fred was eating his candy from trick-or-treating in his room. It was exactly 1:46 a.m. He was just sucking on a lollipop, when he heard a noise. TAP,TAP,TAP. He went out and looked around, but no one was there. His father was asleep in his room. He went back in and continued eating his candy and reading. Then he heard it again. TAP,TAP,TAP. He checked again but his father was asleep, and there was no one else around. Fred was getting creeped out. He heard sounds again, only this time, he heard footsteps--COMING!! He tried to remain calm, and hid under his bed. The door opened, and he heard a man say in a loud voice, "I know where you’re hiding kid. Under the bed!" And the covers were yanked, and a man wearing a clown mask grabbed Fred and...AHHHHH! -- This is a true story written by Fred Kimball's best friend, Katie Lopez.

True Story 13: One night I was sleeping and then I saw a ghost. It warned me about something going wrong later. Then someone came knocking at the door. The next thing you know he left. So we were safe.

True Story 12: It was a dark and quite night. Everything seemed normal until Roberto saw a scary kid. Back in 1950, a kid named Ricardo got killed! Now Every night, at the time he was killed (3:15), he haunts the house - makes noises and Screams. Roberto tries to run… but Ricardo gets him and now they both haunt the house. Two years later the Ortiz family moves in… they hear noises and it starts all over again!!!

True Story 11: I went to a party and my friend and I were eating cake. My friend asked who was the man who was hugging me. I told her, “No one was hugging me.” She said someone was and I said maybe we should go home. We went walking and 15 minutes later we turned around and some shadow was there. We ran as fast as we could. Since then we don’t got to parties on Halloween.


True Story 10: It was dark in the house, about 2 am. I followed my sister through the kitchen. I saw her lying on the floor with her hair spread out, as she wanted me to walk on her for a joke or something. I said, "I can see you!" But when I flicked on the light, the girl lying on the floor was gone. I was freaked out. I've had a lot worse ghost experiences in this house, since day one.

True Story 9: It was last night and I was with my aunt in the house, while my mom and her friend went to Wal-Mart and I heard water going on and off, closet opening, cabinets and I was very scared. I got up to close the closet and got back on the computer.

True Story 8: We just moved in this house with my kids who were babies at that time and I was seven months pregnant. I was very excited. We had no furniture or beds, so we all slept in the living room. That night I was woken up by a man all dressed up in black with a hat. He came from the last bedroom from the end of the hallway. He stood by my feet and said to me that he new what I needed and wanted, but I couldn’t see his mouth move. That scared me, so I pushed my partner with my elbow to wake him up, and that man all dressed in black said he will not wake up! At this time, I was screaming, thinking perhaps it was all a dream, but this thing started jumping on my Feet. I could not feel it! He said to me that all he wanted was useless to me and that he will give me anything for it. At this time, I decided to pray very, very loud Shouting, “Jesus help me!” At that very moment, the figure turned into a dark smoke and disappeared out of the window of the living room. After minutes had passed, my partner woke up after he heard me crying and praying aloud. He doesn’t believe me, but I saw it. I was awake. Early morning came and I went into early labor. My daughter is now 18yrs old. I named her Gloria; which means glory to God.

True Story 7: when I was 14, my gramma died. I was so sad that I went back to her house and I was reading. I heard someone talking in the room, so I went to see. There was no one there, but deep down I think it was my gramma coming to visit me. I MISS HER SO MUCH AND I PRAY FOR HER EVERY NIGHT.

True Story 6: When I was little, my cousin died. When I was little, I saw him.

True Story 5: One night I heard a noise coming from upstairs. I was alone. I walked up stairs to the room it was coming from, then I remembered my baby sister had died a couple years ago. I heard a baby laughing. I walked in the room and found my sister sitting on the couch laughing! I screamed and she disappeared. I will never know why she was at my house and why she was laughing!

True Story 4: I was 8. My name is Mike. This is true story believe it or not... My aunt stayed with my family and I. She had Alzheimer’s disease. There was always something crazy going on. She would talk to the TV, turn the shower on and leave. Bang things around late at night. After awhile she began sleep walking and went outside a few nights. My father would try blocking the door. But one dark night, she went outside one last time. Come morning, everyone noticed she wasn’t in the house, and the things barricading the door had been removed, so my mom and dad started looking for her, while I sat in school wondering where she was. Later that day she was found drowned in a pond behind my house. A short time after that, the strange things she did before she died continued to happen even after her death. Her body may be gone but her spirit still lives here in Key Ridge. Or at least, I hope it was her spirit!!!!

True Story 3: One night I went to bed. Then the next day I woke up and I had a handprint the size of a four year olds on my left arm, but the hand print only had four fingers. My mom asked me if I slept funny, but I told her no because it was a left handprint on my left arm. So then I went to school and the whole day was fine until I made it to math class. I looked at the same arm and there were fork prints in my skin. They were weird fork prints because a normal fork has four prongs but mine only had three. I went to science and everything was fine, then I went home. I was playing on the computer and I heard noises like someone was in the house with me so I ran across the street to my best friend Gigi's house and a Roman numeral two sign came up on the same arm. We tried to figure out what it meant and they were the digits of the date 4-23. Then we figured out something else the letter that each of the numbers start out with was F.T.T. and my sister said that stood for Friday the Thirteenth, so now I'm waiting to see if anything happens, and I'm scared!

True Story 2: At night there are a lot of sounds in the kitchen, but nobody is in the kitchen. Please never look in the closet, because if you do, a two foot shadow will get you! Never stare at the bed when you are on it! All the dolls will start moving out of their spot! So beware the haunted room, and don't say I warned you.

True Story 1: I was riding my bike with my friend. I felt a tickle on my back, and then a few minutes later so did my friend. My friend suddenly screamed, she was looking at a TALL, SHADOWY MAN, the man disappeared, we looked everywhere, we couldn’t find him ANYWHERE.

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